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My husband isn’t sure if he loves me anymore and I‘m falling apart

He is going through some emotional struggles and personal struggles and he said he doesn’t always feel like he loves me anymore. We’ve had a lot of relationship difficulties in the past and I’ve hurt him a lot with things I said. I’m trying to repair it but he still does not have feelings for me other than in some moments or when we are intimate.
He described his feelings as no idea how to meet my needs, indifferent, not in tune with his emotions, generally overwhelmed and past emotional scarring (from the relationship) leading to difficulty expressing.
I don’t know how to take all this anymore and I still love him dearly. I can’t stand the thought of losing him, he was the person I wanted to grow old with.
I keep reading a message he sent me 2 months ago where he told me he loves me the most in the world and he has intense feelings for me and he appreciates me a lot and misses me. He said he has moments where he feels like this about me still. But he said all this started way earlier.
I don’t understand why everything changed so fast. I know I’ve made mistakes, I’m trying to communicate during times when he can open up to me and tell me that he loves me, when we are intimate. We are still intimate regularly and he initiates it. He gets vulnerable in these moments.
He didn’t want to go to therapy but I have convinced him to go just for one session by himself. I made his appointment but I’m scared he’s not going to go.

He has been taking GLP-1 (Mounjaro), he isn’t overweight but he used it still to lose weight and he hasn’t really been doing as should be taken (without doctor). I’m wondering if it could be a reason but I don’t want to find excuses. He said he will stop it now even though he didn’t want to at first.

Has anybody experienced this and it didn’t end in divorce? Any advice on how to get through this?

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u/Ok_Writer1535 — 6 days ago

My husband said I should cheat on him

I‘ve been married to my husband for 3 years, we’ve been together for 9 years. He is Omani, I‘m German and we are both in our early 30s. We have a 14 month old son together.

Our relationship has never been easy but since the beginning of the year it has gotten to a very bad place where I feel emotionally neglected more than ever. He is living in avoidance just pretending everything is fine every day when there is basically no love between us other than physical. I have told him that I need an emotional connection and to feel loved by him to be happy but it either escalated to a fight where he holds me accountable for starting the conversation or wasting his time or on a good day he’d kinda just agree with me but nothing changes after.

I‘m so hurt because of the neglect, I struggle a lot mentally. Recently he has suggested that I just cheat on him since I have told him that if he keeps neglecting me like this, I’ll probably end up cheating at some point. So he said he wouldn’t care if I cheated since I put that image in his head already. It wasn’t in the heat of the moment, he really seem to mean what he said.

It left me very hurt and confused but I am also at a point where I can’t take all of this anymore. I don’t have the strength to leave the relationship on my own and I know it wouldn’t matter to him. When we got to that point, he just wouldn’t leave or would just pretend everything is normal. It’s hard for me to leave with a toddler since all his stuff is here and his nanny and it’s just his home.
But my husband will just avoid any conversation, confrontation or ultimatum. He is resistent to anything and he doesn’t take me seriously.

I struggle to understand what is going on and I just don’t know how to act or move forward. He tells me and shows me that he is extremely attracted to me and I take good care of myself too. I didn’t struggle postpartum or anything. He doesn’t have to take care of the baby really since we have a nanny. He carries a lot of financial responsibility but I’ve tried to make him understand that I don’t even want all of that and I also work full time and have my own business. He does pay our rent and utilities. I’ve tried uncountable times to talk to him. I’ve suggested therapy. He doesn’t want to go and he drinks almost every day. He doesn’t take me seriously.

I need advice on what to do. I just need to understand him and it’s killing me.

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u/Ok_Writer1535 — 19 days ago
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I just feel empty and alone and I don’t know how to fix it

I have this feeling of loneliness even though I am married and have a son (14 months old). I have a nanny and lots of freedom, I have a business and a full time job where I have summers off. I am not satisfied with my marriage because I don’t FEEL loved and I don’t feel we connect on a deep level like I would want to. But could that be the only reason I feel this way? Anybody else experienced this in their life and successfully fixed it?

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u/Ok_Writer1535 — 20 days ago
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My husband drinks every day.

My husband drinks at least two beers every day while working, sometimes he drinks more. When we are out or there is an occasion where we drink he doesn't know his limits and just wants to keep going. I tell him that this is not normal but he keeps telling me he has no issue. When I try to talk to him about it, he just avoids the conversation. He tells me that he can still function, do his work and go to the gym so there is no issue. He doesn't care what I feel about it as we also have a 14 month old son. He is muslim, so it is nothing thats in his culture. What can I do? I feel like the more I talk about it, the more he is shutting me out.

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u/Ok_Writer1535 — 25 days ago
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Is it possible to go braless while breastfeeding?

I hate bras. I never wear them. They feel so suffocating. I struggle to even wear a shirt to sleep in.

My question for ladies that have breastfed before… am I in for a rude awakening? What’s the level of necessity when it comes to the bra situation? Will I still be able to sleep naked or will I leak all over my sheets? Can I go braless during the day or will my breasts be unmanageable beasts?? For context, I was a 32c prior to pregnancy and now at 19 weeks, I’m around a 34d. Give me some insight please!

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u/Justbehappy_ — 3 months ago